Friday, May 2, 2025

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The president's budget plan proposes massive cuts to climate, health and education plans, an oil and gas supplier is accusing Tesla of not paying bills, and Trump is renaming Veterans Day

Top stories

1 | Trump's budget plan includes massive cuts to punish ‘woke’ and ‘weaponized’ agencies

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2 | Oil and gas supplier says Tesla is ‘refusing to pay’ $2 million in past-due bills

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3 | Stephen Miller ‘top contender’ to become new National Security Adviser

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4 | Seven dead after pickup and tour van collide near Yellowstone National Park, Idaho police say

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5 | Trump is renaming Veterans Day to honor World War I soldiers - but nobody knows why

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The Big Question 

Secretary of State Marco Rubio has come a long way from “little Marco,” the name Donald Trump gifted his then-rival for the Republican nomination for president in 2016, when Rubio labeled him a “con artist” who cheated workers after never having worked a day in his life himself.

Rubio, nearly 10 years later, has more job titles than anyone in the Trump administration.

It’s likely a record in modern American history, and makes Rubio the only person to hold both the titles of secretary of state and national security adviser at the same time, other than Henry Kissinger.

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